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NAACP requests community process to consider renaming Columbus Park, citing displacement history
Summary
The Broome-Tioga NAACP requested that the City Council send a resolution to committee to plan a community-driven process to consider renaming Columbus Park, citing historical Black settlement and displacement from the Seventh Ward during mid-20th-century urban renewal.
Reverend Demond Wilson, president of the Broome-Tioga NAACP and pastor of Trinity AME Zion Church, asked the City Council Monday to send resolution RL 25-111 to committee and to plan a community-wide conversation about renaming Columbus Park.
Wilson presented research, including a street-by-street statistical breakdown, that showed a large Black population historically lived in what was called the Seventh Ward and on streets that included Sherman Place, the site…
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